Conductor Yuri Bashmet during the 'Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go' ceremony at Bolshoi Ice Dome on February 7, 2013 in Sochi, Russia. (Photo: Getty Images)

Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go

Ice skaters perform during the 'Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go' ceremony at Bolshoi Ice Dome on February 7, 2013 in Sochi, Russia. (Photo: Getty Images)

Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go

Ice skaters perform during the 'Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go' ceremony at Bolshoi Ice Dome on February 7, 2013 in Sochi, Russia. (Photo: Getty Images)

Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go

Ice skaters perform during the 'Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go' ceremony at Bolshoi Ice Dome on February 7, 2013 in Sochi, Russia. (Photo: Getty Images)

Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go

Ice skaters perform during the 'Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go' ceremony at Bolshoi Ice Dome on February 7, 2013 in Sochi, Russia. (Photo: Getty Images)

Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go

Ice skaters perform during the 'Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go' ceremony at Bolshoi Ice Dome on February 7, 2013 in Sochi, Russia. (Photo: Getty Images)

Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go

Ice skaters perform during the 'Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go' ceremony at Bolshoi Ice Dome on February 7, 2013 in Sochi, Russia. (Photo: Getty Images)

Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go

Russian president Vladimir Putin and IOC Member Jean-Claude Killy attend perfomance of Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go on Feb.7, 2013 in 'Bolshoi' Ice Dome in Sochi, Russia. (Photo: Getty Images)

Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go

Ice skaters perform during the 'Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go' ceremony at Bolshoi Ice Dome on February 7, 2013 in Sochi, Russia. (Photo: Getty Images)

Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go

Ice skaters perform during the 'Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go' ceremony at Bolshoi Ice Dome on February 7, 2013 in Sochi, Russia. (Photo: Getty Images)

Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go

Fireworks light up the sky during the 'Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go' ceremony at Bolshoi Ice Dome on February 7, 2013 in Sochi, Russia. (Photo: Getty Images)

Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go

Russian president Vladimir Putin and former skier Jean-Claude Killy hit the countdown button during the 'Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go' ceremony at Bolshoi Ice Dome on February 7, 2013 in Sochi, Russia. (Photo: Getty Images)

Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go

Fireworks light up the sky during the 'Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go' ceremony at Bolshoi Ice Dome on February 7, 2013 in Sochi, Russia. (Photo: Getty Images)

Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go

Ice skaters perform during the 'Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go' ceremony at Bolshoi Ice Dome on February 7, 2013 in Sochi, Russia. (Photo: Getty Images)

Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go

Acrobats perform during the 'Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go' ceremony at Bolshoi Ice Dome on February 7, 2013 in Sochi, Russia. (Photo: Getty Images)

Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go

Acrobats perform during the 'Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go' ceremony at Bolshoi Ice Dome on February 7, 2013 in Sochi, Russia. (Photo: Getty Images)

Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go

An artist performs with fire during a ceremony to launch a countdown clock for the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Bolshoi Ice Dome in the Black Sea resort of Sochi February 7, 2013. (Photo: Reuters)

Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go

A snowboarder performs during a ceremony to launch a countdown clock for the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Bolshoi Ice Dome in the Black Sea resort of Sochi February 7, 2013. (Photo: Reuters)

Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go

Russian ice dancer, World and Olympic champion, Tatiana Navka, performs with her partner at a ceremony celebrating the one year countdown to the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics opening at the Bolshoi Ice Dome rink in the Black Sea city of Sochi, on February 7, 2013. Putin vowed today Russia would justify expectations when it hosts the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in one year, after ruthlessly firing an official blamed for delays in building infrastructure. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go

Artists perform during a ceremony to mark one year to the start of 2014 Winter Olympics, in Sochi, Russia, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. Russia on Thursday marked the one-year countdown to the Sochi Games, which are considered a matter of national pride and a priority for President Putin. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go

A participant of a ceremony celebrating the one year countdown to the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics opening performs at the Bolshoi Ice Dome rink in the Black Sea city of Sochi, on February 7, 2013. Putin vowed today Russia would justify expectations when it hosts the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in one year, after ruthlessly firing an official blamed for delays in building infrastructure. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go

A participant of a ceremony celebrating the one year countdown to the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics opening performs at the Bolshoi Ice Dome rink in the Black Sea city of Sochi, on February 7, 2013. Putin vowed today Russia would justify expectations when it hosts the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in one year, after ruthlessly firing an official blamed for delays in building infrastructure. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, and IOC President Jaques Rogge, left back to camera, watch a ceremony marking one year to the start of 2014 Winter Olympics, in Sochi, Russia, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. (Photo: AP)

Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go

Ice skaters perform during a ceremony to launch a countdown clock for the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Bolshoi Ice Dome in the Black Sea resort of Sochi February 7, 2013. (Photo: Reuters)

Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) visits the Olympic village with the head of the Sochi 2014 organising committee Dmitry Chernyshenko (L) in the Black Sea city of Sochi, February 7, 2013. (Photo: Reuters)

Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go

People pose for photographs near a countdown clock to the 2014 winter Olympics near the Kremlin, in the centre of Moscow February 7, 2013. Towns held ceremonies across Russia on Thursday to mark 365 days remaining until the start of the 2014 winter Olympics in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. (Photo: Reuters)

Sochi 2014 - One Year To Go

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (C) listens to Sochi 2014 CEO Dmitry Chernyshenko (2nd L) as he visits the main press center at a coastal Olympic cluster in the Black Sea city of Sochi, on February 7, 2013, with the head of the Sochi 2014 Olympic preparatory commission Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak (4th R) attending. Putin fired today a top official for delays in the construction of infrastructure for the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games as Russia began the one-year countdown to the opening. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)